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Jan 10, 20231 min read

The Catholic Labor Network - Walking the Great Carpenter's Path

“You go to church on Sunday, you look around at all the people in the pews, they spend most of their time in the week at work. And what...

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Nov 16, 20221 min read

African Artist Intellectual Property with Foza Fawehinmi - Artist Works

“You are also competing with the guy that goes on TikTok and eats 10,000 pieces of meat and is a superstar. Right? So Superstardom is no...

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Nov 15, 20222 min read

MLK Tapes: What We’ve Learned About the Interests Fighting Unity and Organized Labor

“It's a matter of history now. With the podcast, it's not in a book somewhere that's just gonna sit in a library and nobody's gonna read...

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Oct 12, 20223 min read

Working 9 to 5 A Women’s Movement, a Labor Union, and Iconic Movie with Ellen Cassedy

“Sexual harassment was completely legal. Pregnancy discrimination was legal...We held these bad boss contests. Where the first winner was...

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Oct 10, 20221 min read

Bwando Farms Growing Good Food in Zambia with Conrad Bwalya

“We tend to be so lucky in Zambia and Africa because much of the land that we own, most people just inherit it. You don't buy it. And and...

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Oct 6, 20222 min read

Policies for Universal Prosperity with Daniel Burke - Political Economy Project

“Look at economics from the standpoint of the ability to increase the potential relative population density the number of people that you...

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Oct 4, 20222 min read

Climate Change as Class War with Matt Huber - Author and Professor of Geography

“If you do look at the renewable industry today, it's very hostile to unions. They're very hard jobs to organize. They're spread out,...

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Oct 3, 20221 min read

Life with Energy Scarcity 101 with Irina Slav - Political Economy Project

“There's still people on social media who say, ‘You know, we should just shut up and suck it up. We can get through the winter, even if...

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Oct 2, 20222 min read

Radical Hamilton - Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder with author Christian Parenti

“Workers increase their standard of living and increase their wages through the class struggle, but there's limits to what that can bear...

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Oct 1, 20222 min read

Body.Electric. Is a Science Fiction Anthology Series by Patrick Hale - Artist Works

“You could basically do anything. And so I took that one step further and I was like, okay, let me make a movie on my own or at least get...

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Sep 15, 20222 min read

Unionizing Apple Stores with Billy Jarboe AppleCore Union Member and Organizer

“Depoliticize it, cuz it's not about that. If there is a chance to utilize these rights to create better conditions and don't worry about...

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Sep 14, 20223 min read

America's Fight for Universal Progress from Franklin to Kennedy with Author Anton Chaitkin

“Power is a good thing for people to have. It can be misused by ugly cliques who take over governments or who exercise some coercion on...

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Sep 10, 20222 min read

Creative Recycling with Zsameria of SwapDC

“Our world is really all we got. This planet, at least right now, this planet Earth. So I'm like, I'm just trying to have the power...

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Sep 3, 20222 min read

THANK A UNION - Cecil Roberts President United Mine Workers of America - Battle of Blair Mountain

"When you see all these people with a social security check, you think that fell out of the sky? Thank a union!"

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Aug 23, 20222 min read

Fighting for a Better Future with Labor Journalist Hamilton Nolan - Labor Solidarity Podcast

“Thousands of journalists across the country have been through their own union drives in the past five years or so. And it changes...

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Aug 19, 20223 min read

Luke Rockhold on Healthcare and UFC Fighter Pay

"And if you let these motherf*****s think that they have that leverage, it's only gonna grow above you. So it's just people understanding th

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Aug 12, 20222 min read

West Virginia Mine Wars Museum with Barbara Ellen Smith

The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum is at the site of a historic battle which erupted in May of 1920, setting into motion a chain of events..

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Aug 4, 20222 min read

"We choose to go to the Moon" - JFK on Space Exploration

“That goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills…And new hopes for knowledge and peace are there.” "We...

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Aug 3, 20222 min read

Lynne Hancock - Nuclear Times Newsletter of the United Steel Workers

The nuclear energy economy provides high skilled, high paid, union jobs

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Aug 2, 20222 min read

Jim Key President Atomic Energy Workers Council United Steel Workers

The Future of Union led Nuclear Energy in America “These [nuclear energy jobs] provided good family sustaining wages with good benefits....

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Jul 30, 20221 min read

Curtis Mayfield - The Makings of You (1970)

“The love of all mankind should reflect some sign of these words I've tried to recite. They're close but not quite.” Curtis Lee Mayfield...

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Jul 29, 20222 min read

Michael Gene Sullivan of the San Francisco Mime Troupe - Artist Works

“Being an artist is a constant chase. But most importantly, never sell out. Because once you sell your soul, you can never get it back.”

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Jul 27, 20221 min read

Prayer of the 54th Regiment Before the Battle of Fort Wagner - Morgan Freeman

“We want 'em to know that we went down, standing up!” Morgan Freeman delivers a powerful prayer during one of my favorite scenes in the...

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Jul 26, 20221 min read

End Eco-Colonialism and Free Africa's Nuclear Energy with Princy Mthombeni

“I'm a humanitarian at heart. So I see nuclear as a vehicle that will deliver prosperity to the African continent.”

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Jul 25, 20223 min read

Nuclear Surplus Energy: China vs. United States

“China is building more reactors than the rest of the world has built over the past 35 years.” Energy is Everything. It sustains all...

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Jul 21, 20221 min read

An Artist’s Duty - Nina Simone

Nina Simone was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, civil rights activist, and a revolutionary artist. I love her work. Rest in peace,

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Jul 20, 20222 min read

Energy 101 with Isaac Orr on The Power Hungry Podcast - Excerpt

You need to find a way to satisfy security, reliability, affordability...

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Jul 18, 20221 min read

Mexico and U.S. Labor Solidarity Lessons Learned with Robin Alexander

his new e-book by retired UE Director of International Affairs Robin Alexander tells the story of the partnership between the United Electri

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Jul 13, 20222 min read

Ain’t I A Woman? Reverend Addie Wyatt on Sojourner Truth

“I born 13 children and seen almost all sold off into slavery.” Addie L. Wyatt (March 8, 1924 – March 28, 2012) was a leader in the United

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Jul 12, 202210 min read

JFK On Revolution - March 13, 1962

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

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Jul 11, 20223 min read

Killing People with a Bad Electrical Grid - Meredith Angwin: Author of Shorting the Grid

Shorting the Grid, The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid is an exposé of the insider-ruled practices of the “deregulated” areas of the U

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Jul 9, 20222 min read

What Is Your Life's Blueprint? Martin Luther King Jr. Speech Excerpt - October 26, 1967

“Your blueprint must be a commitment to the eternal principles, of beauty, love and justice.”

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Jul 7, 20222 min read

Robert Frost Reads His Poem The Road Not Taken

“Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back..” Poem’s Meaning according to Ben Kageyama: “Robert Frost...

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Jul 6, 20221 min read

Jazz Lewis - Delegate Representing District 24 - Maryland House of Delegates

“In my legislative district, between the Northern tip of [Maryland] to the Southern tip, I represent 135,000 people…there's a 20 year life."

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Jun 30, 20221 min read

No Time - A beautiful sad soul blues folk tune by Ronald Charles McKernan

"My poor heart can't stand no more, so why don't you just stop talking? If you gonna walk out that door, start walking." I heard this song o

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Jun 29, 20222 min read

Chisenga - Global Hip Hop Artist, Producer, and Sound Engineer

“Sometimes I'll be feeling all alone…like, am I the only person that believes it? But I believe in it enough to know that where there's a wi

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Jun 28, 20221 min read

My soul has grown deep like the rivers - Langston Hughes

“I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I’ve seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the suns

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Jun 27, 20221 min read

Driving home with the Labor Radio Podcast Network

“There's a lot of solidarity, a lot of love and in both Philadelphia and Chicago, and it's been a great road trip with the Labor Radio...

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Jun 26, 20221 min read

Why Love?

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

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Jun 25, 20222 min read

CEOs Screwing Workers with Sarah Anderson of Global Economy Project at IPS & Inequality.org

“At Amazon, the CEO got $213 million last year, and that was 6,474 times as much as median worker pay at the company, which was about...

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Jun 24, 20222 min read

The Coalition of Labor Union Women Response to the Supreme Court Decision on Roe v. Wade.

"We will mobilize millions of women across the country to exercise their right to vote out any elected official who stands in the way of...

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Jun 22, 20221 min read

Labor On The Airwaves at Labor Notes

“If you're thinking about trying to start a podcast or a radio show, don't think about doing it all yourself, This is a collective...

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Jun 21, 20221 min read

“Billionaires have got to go! F—k Jeff Bezos!”

“When you come to the fight with organized labor, if you are corporate America, and you want to take us on, or you are a crooked...

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Jun 20, 20221 min read

Voices from Labor Notes Conference 2022 - Labor Radio Podcast Daily

There are over 4,000 folks at the 2022 Labor Notes conference in Chicago and the Labor Radio Podcast Network team talked to almost all of...

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Jun 18, 20221 min read

Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Network takes a road trip to Chicago!

“I've been humbled by all the people I've met over the last few days who've done so much in organizing and improving, working people's...

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Jun 15, 20221 min read

Rockin’ the Philadelphia Museum of Art

"I deserve to eat. I deserve to get the wages I deserve this opportunity to provide for my family as well." Erica Stewart - Boilermakers...

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Jun 14, 20221 min read

Spiritual and Global Solidarity

"There's another vision of the way things could be. And I think that's where the church and labor and so many of the movements that are...

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Jun 14, 20221 min read

LIVE from the AFL-CIO convention!

Welcome to the Labor Radio Podcast Daily, a special edition of the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly. Empathy Media Lab has partnered with the...

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Jun 9, 20221 min read

Mother Jones - Labor Leader Diaries - Excerpt 3

Mother Jones is one of my heroes.

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Jun 7, 20222 min read

Richard DeShay Elliott - Candidate District 24 Maryland House of Delegates

“The amount of money they paid these anti-union lawyers...It's an insult to spend money against somebody when you could have spent less...

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